Digital Ethics

Artificial intelligence will be the next GDPR.

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database

“There is something specifically exhausting about receiving sexual advances and explicit messages on LinkedIn.”

No, Duolingo. I didn’t make you sad. Because you don’t have emotions. You are an app. A corporate non-feeling entity. And the reason I wasn’t using you to learn French was because I was actually IN FRANCE. Which is an even better app for learning French. Now piss off, in French. pic.twitter.com/K4Xs7n26AS— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) August 12, 2019

The first Swiss think tank for digital ethics explores the risks of digitization.

Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.

The problems of Normal today are embedded in history.

In Cook County, Illinois, 99 percent of defendants deemed ‘high risk’ for pretrial violence don’t reoffend.

Debate may be raging about government uses of facial-recognition technology, but the technology already is an accepted part of Americans’ everyday lives. Now hundreds of summer camps across the United States have tethered their rustic lakefronts to facial-recognition software, allowing parents an increasingly omniscient view into their kids’ home away from home.

We keep deploying new technologies that rely on data to fly airplanes, drive cars, manage security, conduct surgery, etc.

More than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is still struggling to protect user data.

The technology to create fully synthetic vidoes is rapidly improving. Teaching the five Cs of critical consumption is becoming increasingly important.

1/ If you care about surveillance, you really should listen to @geoffreyfowler on @nprfreshair discuss what he’s learned from investigating the secret life of data. https://t.co/5Pb7a0hibz Here’s why. Spoilers. Surveillance sounds scary, very Big Brother. But many surveillance— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) August 2, 2019

The Google machine learning company trumpeted its success in predicting a deadly kidney condition, but its results raise questions around…

Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that.

Rohit Chopra got off on the wrong foot less than two weeks into his new job last year at the Federal Trade Commission. That was when he fired off a memo to the entire agency, including his four fellow FTC commissioners, titled “Repeat Offenders.”The memo suggested the agency was at risk of ...

Amazon is not following Apple and Google in suspending practice altogether

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is circulating new rules that would make it nearly impossible for banks – or landlords or homeowners insurance companies – to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing. The rule would overturn 50 years of precedent, upheld by the Supreme […]

We are creating architects who have never heard of building codes, drivers who have never heard of the Highway Code, and doctors who have never heard of the Hippocratic oath.

Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all central players in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data.

Documents obtained by Motherboard show that Ring uses partnership and promotional agreements in order to contractually obligate public officials to promote its products.

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Siri grading suspended globally.

You're in a codependent relationship with technology. Here's how to bring the spark back.

Nope, not creepy at all.

In April, two of the organizers of the Google Walkout, Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton, came forward with the stories of the…

Give the camera someone else’s face — or obscure your own. Strive for asymmetry. Make your head unheadlike.